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I-LR'EESR, REMOVING HOUSE SEWAGE AND VENTILATING THE PIPES THEREFOR.

Patente'd Oct. 11,1881;

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HENRY REESE, OF BALTIMORE,MARYLAND.

REMOVING HOUSE-SEWAGE AND VENTlLATlNG THE PIPES THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,216, dated October 11, 1881.

Application filed February 2l, 18 81. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY REESE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Methods and Apparatuses for Removing House-Sewage and Ventilating the Pipes and Conduits for Conveying same, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention is in the nature of a system by which the sewage from the houses in a district where it is diflicult or impossible from natural causes to employ an outfall sewer or conduit is led from the houses through inclined pipes to an air-tight reservoir built, preferably, in the ground. A steam or other engine is employed to pump the sewage from this reservoir through pipes to an outfall sewer or conduit, or to some point where it will dispose of itself or be disposed of.

To prevent the foul air and gases from the reservoir and waste-pipes from entering the buildings at the bowls, sinks, 850., I employ a blower, exhaust-fan, or other similar device arranged to exhaust the air and gases from the reservoir, and force them into a furnace or chimney, whereby an indraft is created at all of the waste-openings in the houses, and all liability of the gases entering at these points is effec tually prevented. In some cases, if the draft is found to be sufficient, the exhaust-fan might be dispensed with, and the pipe from the reservoir be led directly tothe furnace or stack. I prefer to pass the gases through the furnace, so as to insure the destruction of all germs and disagreeable odors; but if the stack or chimney were high, or the draft hot and powerful, the pipe from the reservoir might be led directly into it at or near the point where the products of combustion from the furnace enter it.

It is well known that in some localities, especially in cities on the sea-board, there are districts where the houses are situated at a level so low that suitable outfall-sewers cannot be employed to receive the house-sewage, and where such are employed the tides and heavy rains, often acting in conjunction, will fill the sewers and back up into the house-conduits, forcing the foul air and gases into the house through the waste-outlets. It is for such localities that my method is best adapted, but it streets, it is obvious that it would be imprac.

ticable to create an indraft at the waste-outlets by attempting to exhaust the air from them. Therefore Iemploy my air-tight reservoir with the pumping and air-exhausting mechanism as an intermediate between the house-conduit and the sewer, whatever may be the level of the latter, whereby I am enabled to create an indraft through the waste-outlets without interference from the openings from the street into the sewer, as the sewage in the reservoir and the pump mechanism act as a seal or cut-off between the exhausting mechanism and the sewer proper.

The drawing which serves to illustrate my invention is a sectional elevation, in which-- A represents awaste-pipeor conduit from the house or houses, which opens into an air tight reservoir, B, shown as set or built in the ground. This reservoir may be con structed'of masonry, as shown, or of iron or other materials.

0 represents in general a steam-pump, arranged to take the liquid or semi-liquid sewage from the reservoir through a pipe, D, which dips down nearly to the bottom of the reser- 8o voir, and force it through a pipe, E, to an outfall-sewer, or to some other point where it may be disposed of.

Fis asteam-boiler for supplying steam to the pump-engine, and Gr and H are, respectively, '8 5 the furnace and stack or chimney. These may be of the usual or any good construction.

I represents an ordinary blower or exhaust- 1 fan, run by a belt from the pump-engine, by

preference, and provided with an induction- 0 pipe, J, which taps the crown of the reservoir B. The fan exhausts the air and gases from the upper part of the reservoir and forces them through an eduction-pipe, K, into the furnace G, preferably under the grate, as shown. An- 5 other pipe, L, arranged to cut off the fan, may tap the induction-pipe J, as shown, and merge withthe eduction-pipe K. The pipes J, K, and L are each provided with a damper or cut-off,

a, so that, when desired, the blower may be stopped and cut ofi' from the reservoir B, and the draft of the furnace be relied on to exhaust the gases from the reservoir. \Vhen the blower or fan is in operation the damper in the pipe L will, of course, be closed and the other two opened. This position of the dampers is that represented in the drawing. The pipe L might, ofcourse, be entirelyindependent of the blower and its pipes, and it might debouch into the flue of the stack instead of the furnace, as shown.

It is important that the pipe D should be sealed in the reservoir, and to better insure this I arrange it to dip nearly to the bottom ofthe reservoir. It, might, however, be sealed or valved in some other well-known Way.

I do not confine myself to the particular arrangement of the pump, blower, and furnace with reference to the reservoir as herein shown. If water-power be employed to run the pump,

for example, no steanrgenerator will be needed,

and the pump might as well be run independently of the fan. I may also employ one main conduit, A, for a number of houses, and arrange the waste-pipes from the houses to open into it.

It will be understood that with my arrangement, where the air and gases are being constantly exhausted from the reservoir the main waste-pipein the house should not open out of the roof, nor should the down-spout, which leads the water from the roof, open into the conduit leading to the reservoir. This pipe should lead to the main sewer or to the streetgutter, otherwise it would be diflieult to obtain an indraft through the waste-outlets at the basins, &c. YVith my arrangements traps will be unnecessary except as precautionary devices.

I am aware that air-tight reservoirs have been arranged between outfall-sewers and the sewer system of a district, into which reservoirs the sewage from said district is deposited, andfrom whenceit is automatically forced to the outfall-sewer by means of compressed air. With this arrangement, however, the ventilation of thesewage-conduitsis not attempted and could not well be accomplished, as the pressure in the reservoir is never less, and generally greater, than that of the atmosphere, and

no indraft is produced at the waste-outlets in the houses.

I am also aware that water-closets have been ventilated by tapping the trunk with a pipe which leads to a chimney-flue, and that pipes have been led from cesspools or tanks connected with water-closets to chimney-fines; but I am not aware that the sewage'conduit which leads the sewage and waste-water from all parts of the house has been arranged to deposit into a close reservoir, and that the air has been forcibly exhausted from the reservoir, so as to create a positive indraft through all the waste-outlets in the house. This 1 accomplish by means of the arrangement herein shown.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination, with aconduit arranged to convey sewage from a house or houses, of an air-tight reservoir into which said conduit discharges and into which it deposits the sewage, an air-exhausting apparatus arranged to exhaust the air and gases trom the reservoir and the sewage-conduit and force them into afurnace, the said furnace, and asui table pump to remove the sewage from the reservoir, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the conduitA, reservoir B, and furnace G, of the blower D and the pipes J K L, provided with dampers a a, all arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY REESE.

Witnesses:

WM. BONE, J. S. SHOWACRE. 

